Three protesters are suing the Metropolitan Police Department over its alleged use of non-lethal weapons and projectiles like stinger grenades, rubber bullets, and flash bang devices against racial justice protesters in the summer of 2020, the DCist reports.
The Washington Post covers PCJF's lawsuit against MPD for retaliating against racial justice protestors with mass police violence.
PCJF v. D.C., is a lawsuit in which the PCJF is challenging MPD’s refusal to turn over public records related to police use of force against 2020 protestors as required by the DC FOIA.
The PCJF filed a lawsuit against D.C. MPD to force disclosure of records under D.C.’s Freedom of Information Act, involving the department's violent response to racial justice demonstrations against police misconduct throughout 2020.
A racial justice protestor was falsely arrested at a demonstration protesting the murder of Alexis Wilson by Dolton Illinois police.
Today, a Minnesota court issued a ruling protecting an Indigenous-led camp of Line 3 opponents from Hubbard County’s unlawful blockades and targeted harassment.
CPLL and counsel Melinda Power filed a lawsuit against the Dolton Police Department in Illinois for illegally arresting a protestor who called police "fucking pig."
The Center for Protest Law & Litigation and counsel Melinda Power of Chicago’s West Town Law Office filed lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the…
The legal team representing the Water Protectors, who were violently attacked by police while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, filed an appeal in…
The Center for Protest Law & Litigation, working with our partners at Earthrights International, won a major victory on behalf of Line 3 Indigenous-led water protectors, obtaining a court ruling that a MN Sheriff’s blockade of their camp was illegal and which barred any ongoing efforts to obstruct access.
The legal team representing the Water Protectors, who were violently attacked by police while protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in 2016, filed an appeal in…
The National Police Accountability Project submitted this amicus curiae brief in support of the appeal to the Eight Circuit Court of Appeals in the case…